The Labor enquirer., 1887-06-18
there is nothing which is condemned by
the Holy Bee,


secresy toward a competent ecclesiastical
authority even outside Of the confessional
Fourth-That there is no promise OF
blind obedience, and NO obligation beyond
the distinctly declared objects Of the asso.
citation,
Fiually-That there IL NO hostility either
against the church or against the state
To this must be added that very large
proportion Of the knights Of Labor are
faithful, practising Catholics.
II is upon these grounds that the CEN
sure passed upon its old and and censura-
BILE form has been withdrawn"
There are some Who would like to ask
when the organisation underwent this re.
visions whom the old and oensurable form
was changeds Anyhow, we have here a
curious piece Of literature which should be
worth preserving.
The next page and half are devoted "a
"Our Letter Box" According to recent
speech by John 6winton there have been
376 strikes since the commencement Of the
year, in which fully Hve times as many
men were engaged as the troubles Of 76
involved. Not only has there been an eco
nomic struggle Of the bitterest kind, but
in the McGlynn case, in the Henry George
movement, in the Union Labor Party
movement, and in hundred other in
stances the religious, the moral, and the
political phases Of the labor movement
have of late been brought under discus-
sion as they never were before. What has
"Our Letter Box" to say on all thiss ABB
solutely nothing. There is an allusion or
two to petty local election, or cooper
ative store effort, and beyond these, twad-
die, mere little tattle. Dancing was in
dulged in" "a vote of trust was unani-
mously rendered to Assemblyman So-and-
So," and the like. As a Knight of Labor
/ sincerely pray that we may not be
judged by our correspondence in the Off
cial organ.
We now come to the two central pages.
'Death in n Pit" puts in word for the
widows and orphans of colliery victims; a
sympathetic and you may
find its brother in any of the dailies. "A
Tyrannical Blow at Mans Freedom" is Sc.
verely sarcastic on the young men of
Newton, New Jersey, who have objected to
the introduction of the old blue laws by
the young .women's "Anti-Vice Society
As Mr.. Litchman evidently thinks that
there cannot be any difference of opinion
on this subject, l humbly suggest John
Stuart Mills essay on Liberty for his
consideration. Then comes an article in
Weighing against "Mormonism,' after
which half column of the labor journals
"west pleasure in recommending" and
the balance filed in with shakespeare
Women" aud similar padding.
The next page and half is given to
"Various Notes." / should indeed be
sorry to infiict them at such length on the
readers of the ENQUIRER, but luckily the
pith Of them can be given in the shortest
of paragraphs. President Cleveland has
some of the "by-the- Eternal" grit because
he has ventured to say that the Northern
Pacific railroad has no title to Guilford
Miller's farm. G. p. Huntington's exam
nation shows that the ways of railroads
are peculiar" Really! We want a law
to make corporations pay by the week, and
so bolster up the wage-system little
longer. We must have boiler inspection.
There should be no attachment of wages
for debt. Factory Legislation in Maine
is in its infancy. How exciting it is fight
ing over these details, and how satisfac-
tory, for when you have disposed of No.
1000, No. 1901 will give you all the old
fun over again! ..
The best article is "1he Railways or the
Republic Good enough, but its father
was breeched twenty years ago, and the
family was already very prolific one
when we were boys. The last page is de-
voted to some amisble moralizing on the
woman's question, and-there, ladies and
gentlemed of the twelve hundred thousand
strong Knights Of Labor, you have your
much vaunted official organ. The one ar
ticle in il of any interest is Cardinal Man
ning's, which as specimen of medieval
thought is quantity curious. The cores
pondence, in which the soul of labor pa
per's writer's is sure TO peep out, if they
have one, is for the most part twaddle;
in the articles the themes and the senti-
ments alike were worn threadbare ten
years ago. There is not in the whole
number line that burns-what am say
ing!-there is not line that even family
glows. Yet to support this sheet, which
no earnest worker in his senses would ever
dream of subscribing to, 100000 of us
are annually assessed. "what fools these
mortals be" is the motto of the paper that
has most persistemtly quizzed the Knights
of Labor. What fools indeed! They do
not even know that the proof of the pud-
ding is in the eating VIC. o.
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